PEACEKEEPING MODALITIES AND THE EUROPEAN UNION-UNITED NATIONS (EU-UN) COOPERATION IN CONFLICT MANAGEMENT: AN ANALYSIS (original) (raw)

The emerging partnership between the European Union (EU) and the United Nations (UN) in crisis management is clearly a desirable development. EU can contribute to the UN by providing vital capabilities, especially in rapid redeployment while the UN can confer legality and legitimacy to EU operation thereby enabling the Union to become fairly a global actor, not just economically but also politically. The EU’s commitment to UN peacekeeping mission is truly one of foundations of the European Security and Defense Policy (ESDP). The study argues that the EU preference for participating in UN-mandated peacekeeping missions to UN-led operations impedes rather than enhances the EU-UN cooperation in conflict management.